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adminicular

adminicular adjective: supplying help; auxiliary; corroborative; explanatory.

Adjective

adminicular (comparative more adminicular, superlative most adminicular)

  1. (obsolete) Supplying help; auxiliary; corroborative; explanatory.
    • He came: he found the islanders beside themselves at this unwelcome resurrection of the dead and the detested; he was shown, as adminicular of testimony1896, Robert Louis Stevenson, Records of a Family of Engineers
    Synonyms:
    adminiculary

Synonyms of adminicular

Forms of adminicular

comparativemore adminicular
superlativemost adminicular

Origin of adminicular

From Latin adminiculō (“to prop up, support”) + -ar.

Questions about adminicular

What does adminicular mean?
Adminicular means supplying help; auxiliary; corroborative; explanatory.
What part of speech is adminicular?
Adminicular is an adjective.

Words near adminicular in the dictionary

  1. admined
  2. adminese
  3. adminhood
  4. adminicle
  5. adminicles
  6. adminicular
  7. adminiculary
  8. adminiculate
  9. adminiculated
  10. adminiculates
  11. adminiculating

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